AltEPG

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help please.
I have recorded some home videos onto my tivo and they are listed as "Manual recordings".
I was looking at getting a turbonet card.
So my question is.....
Will this card enable me to edit the titles of my "now playing" programmes to give them names so I can recognise which is which, rather than just "manual recordings".
Thanks in advance for any help.
Bob

The card will allow you to use TiVoweb or TiVoweb+, and both these allow you to edit the titles, yes.

Thanks very much Mr Tickle.
I'll be back again soon to ask how to do it lol

There are already lots of existing threads and posts explaining how lol

Well, my replacement Tivo arrived today with not a 320 GB hard drive, not even a 500 GB one, 640 GB no less A slight improvement on my old 40Gig
Now here's my new puzzle....
The hard drive appears to be plugged into a small red circuit board then that connected to the main wiring.
When I first turn it on, a page loads saying
Silicon dust cache card , error, drivers failed to load
It then continues to load and the next page welcomes me to Tivoheaven.com

I can see it's not a turbonet card (far too small) so was wondering if anyone knew what it was please.
I'm guessing just a an extra bit of memory to help speed things along?
On last request if I may.....
There seems to be loads of info on what to do with tivoweb, I just cant find any instructions on how to load it in the first place. (A link would be brilliant to an idiots guide on insatallation)
I dont have a card yet but would like to know what to do with it if I get one.
If it's too complicated, I wont bother lol
Thanks again in anticipation.
Bob

bobmac004 wrote:The hard drive appears to be plugged into a small red circuit board then that connected to the main wiring.

I think that's a probably a SATA/IDE converter. Your new hard disk is most likely SATA, but TiVo needs IDE. Search google for "startech sata ide converter" and see if that's what it is.

When I first turn it on, a page loads saying
Silicon dust cache card , error, drivers failed to load
It then continues to load and the next page welcomes me to Tivoheaven.com

Tivoheaven?! A blast from the past.... Who sold you that then?

There seems to be loads of info on what to do with tivoweb, I just cant find any instructions on how to load it in the first place. (A link would be brilliant to an idiots guide on insatallation)
I dont have a card yet but would like to know what to do with it if I get one.

With luck it's pre-installed. It certainly would be if you'd got an altepg build from Tivoland. But as you appear to have a tivoheaven build then it's a bit hard to tell.

Thanks for the reply.
I checked for 'startech sata ide converter' and it's not one of those.
The board in mine is only about 2-3 in long and an inch wide and plugs directly into the hard drive which I'm fairly sure is Sata.

bobmac004 wrote:Well, my replacement Tivo arrived today with not a 320 GB hard drive, not even a 500 GB one, 640 GB no less A slight improvement on my old 40Gig
Now here's my new puzzle....
The hard drive appears to be plugged into a small red circuit board then that connected to the main wiring.
When I first turn it on, a page loads saying
Silicon dust cache card , error, drivers failed to load
It then continues to load and the next page welcomes me to Tivoheaven.com

Ok, I think your getting confused with which cards plug are which.

The red card on the end of the drive is indeed the IDE to SATA converter and is nothing to do with the Turbonet or Cachecard.
The Turbonet is a small green card that plugs onto the connector near the front of the machine.
The Cachecard is a red card that plugs in the same place and is a lot bigger.

The boot up cachecard error is normal if the cachecard is installed but now SDRAM module is installed.
The cachecard will continue to boot up the network drivers and the error is fine, it just means it couldn't install the cache driver since there was no memory for it to use.

Of-course, if you don't have a red card plugged into the connecter near the front of the TiVo (if the previous user sold it separately), that would also be the culprit for the boot error.

As the build is a Tivoheaven build and we don't know if its even been modified to use AltEPG, I would recommend taking this opportunity to update the hard disk with AltEPG 1.0d (if you comfortable with doing TiVo restore's that is!).

As the build is a Tivoheaven build and we don't know if its even been modified to use AltEPG, I would recommend taking this opportunity to update the hard disk with AltEPG 1.0d (if you comfortable with doing TiVo restore's that is!).

It seems to work ok with AltEPG and has downloaded all the programe listings.
The whole point of buying it was to just increase the hard drive size and maybe get a turbo card so I could edit the manual recordings through Tivoweb (if I find out how that works)

Ah, that's ok then, it has been modified for AltEPG, you should be good to go then.

healeydave wrote:Ah, that's ok then, it has been modified for AltEPG, you should be good to go then.

Thats good news. So I now need to get the turbo card, take off the tivo cover, plug in the card, close it up, connect the cable to my internet router, shake some magic fairy dust over it and hope for the best?.
I have downloaded 2 files so far...a Tivoweb.tar and a ui.itcl
so I must be just about ready to go ?